linux-kernel - Re: Kaffeine problem with CFS

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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:14:54 +0300
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	"Christoph Pfister" <christophpfister@...il.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael Lothian" <mike@...eburn.co.uk>,
	"Christophe Thommeret" <hftom@...e.fr>,
	"Jurgen Kofler" <kaffeine@....net>
Subject: Re: Kaffeine problem with CFS

15 Nis 2007 Paz tarihinde, Christoph Pfister şunları yazmıştı: 
> Could you try xine-ui or gxine? Because I suspect rather xine-lib for
> freezing issues. In any way I think a gdb backtrace would be much
> nicer - but if you can't reproduce the freeze issue with other xine
> based players and want to run kaffeine in gdb, you need to execute
> "gdb --args kaffeine --nofork".

I just tested xine-ui and i can easily reproduce exact same problem with 
xine-ui also so you are right, it seems a xine-lib problem trigger by CFS 
changes.

> > > thanks. This does has the appearance of a userspace race condition of
> > > some sorts. Can you trigger this hang with the patch below applied to
> > > the vanilla tree as well? (with no CFS patch applied)
> >
> > oops, please use the patch below instead.

Tomorrow i'll test that patch and also try to get a backtrace.

Cheers
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

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